Please Answer my query...
We are the exporters of iron ore. After we export, at the destination port, we will appoint an agency for sampling the iron ore to find out its quality [Fe Content]. After the sampling was over, the service provider will rise a bill on us in foreign currency and the service provider is not collecting service tax. Now the audit party objected that, the said service is chargeable under revese mechanism as imoprt of services and asked us to pay the tax on the same.
Here the service provided and received is outside India. But the service receiver is in India.
Please clarify whether the said transaction is taxble under service tax provisions.

